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I had the same speed problems. KDE runs fine for a while but slowly grinds to a halt. I tried editing the Xservers file, but this did not help. I also tried a clean .kde directory and removing the files in /tmp, but this also changed nothing.

Finally, I completely removed KDE from my system and installed the packages from the SuSE ftp site. Everything seems in order now.

I guess there might be something wrong with the KDE packages, but I've been unable to track it down. My advice is to just stick with the SuSE rpms.

I have installed the 3.2 rpms, but there are a few problems ...
1) The menu is all messed up. The development menu comes up no more ..
2) Transparent kicker doesnt work properly ... the whole image is a bit shifted towards the left at the portion of kicker.
3) The new window manager creates more problems than it solves : whenever i minimize xmms, only the main window gets minimized, the others stay where they are. Worse still i cannot alt-tab to them.

I use Mandrake 10 Community and have the same problem with XMMS (but when I installed Cooker RPMs of KDE 3.2 on Mandrake 9.2 XMMS minimized correctly). Maybe it is somehow connected with some libraries (GTK or GTK+?).

Hi I am running a RH7.3 machine (yes... it's old)
and attempted to build KDE 3.2 release via
konstruct. I get the following error when
it as building QT's designer I assume?
Can anyone point out what lib that I may
have missing or need to upgrade?
My suspicion is something to do with
zlib or libpng?

And I have SuSE 8.2, kernel 2.4 -- and installed the 3.2 packages today with that apt-rpm thingy, and I have sound, too. Listening to some madrigals at the moment, in fact, with noatun. On the other hand, I'm having a hard time getting KOffice cvs to compile :-(. No clone tool for Krita today, I'm afraid.

I have another problem with artsd from KDE 3.1.95 compiled from sources on Slackware-current: artsd crashes every time when it tries to mix two sounds. I use oss (linux-2.4.24), but alsa-lib is also present on my system.

Ok, enough stories, but is there already a solution to this? Because I started to think that the sound chipset became out of order, and neither do I have sound. I don't see anyone saying "this is what you have to do...blah blah blah" and sound gets back!

Similar grief here.
plain unadulterated fresh install of suse 9.3
followed by the automatic online updates
kernel, kde, xmms, all apps only from suse packages from an official suse 9.3 ftp mirror so far except boinc/seti@home.

artsd crashes about once a day or so. I don't have to exit xmms. I just have to go to kde control center and uncheck & re-check "use sound system" & hit apply and it starts artsd again. Then just hit play in xmms and it reconnects to the stream I always listen to and works for another day or so. Doesn't seem to matter if I'm actually playing audio, it'll sometimes be crashed already when I go to hit play after coming home from work and everything was sitting idle all day.

Annoying as hell. If I were trying to avoid loading arts and silly things like a text editor kept loading it like the other guy says I'd be junking kde wholesale the first time that happened. I usually never use kde/gnome exactly for reasons like this. But I figured I should at least try doing things the "normal" way once in a while or else I'm talking through my ... when I advize people to reject these gross fat "desktop environments".

No my friend, you did not miss a thing. You started this thread in 2004, when ARTS sucked. Now it is 2006, and ARTS sucks just the same, if not more for still being a part of KDE. How this crap is an integral component of the best non-commercial desktop in existence is beyond me.
I run only Debian, and every single time I have attempted to use ARTS, it has failed. Not only that, but failed miserably. This is over a period of several years, mind you. Sometimes I get a strange philanthropic urge and decide to try ARTS again. EVERY TIME, I GET BURNED.
ARTS is one of the worst pieces of non-commercial software available. I LOVE KDE, and do everything in my power to keep ARTS away from me. But it just keeps coming back, like THE EVIL DEAD.

Well done!!! Thank you all.
I installed kde 3.2 yesterday and it is a (nearly) perfect software. It runs much faster compared to my old kde 3.1.
But I have one problem:
The mouse does not work well in the K-menu. Sometimes it works, sometimes the mouse "hangs" and I can´t clik on a program to start it. After I press a key (eg. alt-tab), all works fine. That does not happen every time, only sometimes.
KDE 3.1 worked fine with the same hardware.

Yes, I used the Fedora RPMs. Installing KDE 3.2 with the Fedora RPMS was working well without any problems. And it runs fine (and fast!).
The only problem I have is, that the mouse sometimes "hangs". It happens only in the K-menu. I move around the menu items and sometimes the mouse movment stops. And sometimes I can click on a item/program and nothing happens. When I press a key (eg. Alt) after the "hang" the menu disappers and the mouse is working again.
Using menus in other programs (kde, gnome, gtk) is working fine.
I took a look at my XF86config (XFree 4.3) file and removed an entry for the usb-mouse, because I use a PS/2 mouse. But it does not help.
The same configuration (hardware, kernel, XFree) worked perfect with KDE 3.1.
Any idea?

sometimes, I need to click a application icon several times on the kicker to launch or maximum it, very very frustrating, I am thinking about going back to gnome, but still struggling, hope I could fix it, haven't been using gnome form years...

I solved the problem as follows:
I removed Klipper from the panel. Right-click on it, than click on remove, Miniprogram, Klipper.
(I hope, that I translated it correct, because I use a German version of KDE)
Funny: when you re-use Klipper the mouse problem will not come up again.
Dont ask me why ;-)

i have a problem with mouse, it does not work properly especially when i want to click on the address book in my email. if i click on insert address from email address book it will just show GREEN EXCLAIMATION MARK.. why is it so.. and what should i do to make it working again like it used to be???this ia happen too when i want to click on some other link page.. the GREEN eclaimation mark will show out.. but before this it is just perfect.. but not now.. can someone help me??? thanks..

Just installed KDE 3.2 (on Gentoo). The only problem I've noticed is that Konquerer (web browser) always opens mpeg links using Kaboodle embedded in a new browser window. It seems to totally ignore the file associations I set using the control panel (or going to Configure Konqueror in the settings menu). I also can't stop it from opening Kaboodle in a new browser window.

Here is the weird part... the mpeg file associations work perfectly when using Konqueror as a file manager.